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FLS vs. AIT, CR, DOV, EMR, GGG, GHM, IR, ITT, PH, and PNR

Should you be buying Flowserve stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowserve include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Crane (CR), Dover (DOV), Emerson Electric (EMR), Graco (GGG), Graham (GHM), Ingersoll Rand (IR), ITT (ITT), Parker-Hannifin (PH), and Pentair (PNR).

Flowserve vs. Its Competitors

Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) and Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and media sentiment.

93.9% of Flowserve shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Flowserve shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Flowserve currently has a consensus target price of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.05%. Applied Industrial Technologies has a consensus target price of $285.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.24%. Given Flowserve's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Flowserve is more favorable than Applied Industrial Technologies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Flowserve
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Applied Industrial Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Applied Industrial Technologies has a net margin of 8.64% compared to Flowserve's net margin of 6.12%. Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity of 22.01% beat Flowserve's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Flowserve6.12% 17.68% 6.85%
Applied Industrial Technologies 8.64%22.01%12.83%

Applied Industrial Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Flowserve. Flowserve is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Applied Industrial Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Flowserve$4.56B1.57$282.76M$2.1425.59
Applied Industrial Technologies$4.48B2.22$385.76M$9.9626.19

Flowserve has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Flowserve pays out 39.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 18.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Flowserve has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Applied Industrial Technologies has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years.

In the previous week, Applied Industrial Technologies had 10 more articles in the media than Flowserve. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies and 8 mentions for Flowserve. Flowserve's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Applied Industrial Technologies' score of 1.02 indicating that Flowserve is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Flowserve
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Applied Industrial Technologies
11 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Applied Industrial Technologies beats Flowserve on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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FLS vs. The Competition

MetricFlowserveMACH IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.16B$12.90B$7.63B$20.85B
Dividend Yield1.53%23.75%4.55%3.65%
P/E Ratio25.5929.0625.2627.55
Price / Sales1.574.95104.0059.20
Price / Cash16.5616.4227.7322.29
Price / Book3.513.844.434.66
Net Income$282.76M$521.16M$797.00M$994.58M
7 Day Performance2.04%1.26%0.93%-0.29%
1 Month Performance17.97%9.50%6.28%4.91%
1 Year Performance8.89%25.92%30.24%10.53%

Flowserve Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FLS
Flowserve
4.2317 of 5 stars
$54.76
+0.0%
$63.00
+15.0%
+7.1%$7.16B$4.56B25.5916,000Positive News
AIT
Applied Industrial Technologies
4.3005 of 5 stars
$256.95
+1.2%
$285.00
+10.9%
+25.7%$9.79B$4.50B25.806,500Positive News
CR
Crane
3.9292 of 5 stars
$187.89
+1.6%
$197.75
+5.2%
+24.5%$10.80B$2.18B24.8911,000
DOV
Dover
4.8227 of 5 stars
$188.76
-0.1%
$208.58
+10.5%
+0.4%$25.88B$7.73B11.3724,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
EMR
Emerson Electric
4.6902 of 5 stars
$139.93
-0.1%
$140.89
+0.7%
+22.1%$78.71B$17.61B33.4873,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
GGG
Graco
4.1688 of 5 stars
$87.17
-0.6%
$93.00
+6.7%
+4.9%$14.57B$2.15B30.804,300News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
GHM
Graham
4.1629 of 5 stars
$50.70
+0.2%
$60.00
+18.4%
+68.3%$555.03M$209.90M45.67490
IR
Ingersoll Rand
4.2655 of 5 stars
$87.69
-1.5%
$99.42
+13.4%
-10.5%$35.38B$7.28B43.4121,000
ITT
ITT
4.434 of 5 stars
$158.11
+0.2%
$170.00
+7.5%
+13.0%$12.44B$3.63B25.1411,700
PH
Parker-Hannifin
4.2775 of 5 stars
$712.31
-0.4%
$735.88
+3.3%
+29.7%$91.02B$19.93B27.4361,120Positive News
Analyst Forecast
PNR
Pentair
4.5556 of 5 stars
$106.79
-0.3%
$109.43
+2.5%
+30.5%$17.57B$4.08B27.609,750Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NYSE:FLS) was last updated on 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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